Download this press release as a pdf. From 7–11 November 2019, The Queen’s House, Greenwich, will host the first ever exhibition of the War Widows’ Quilt. Made from armed forces shirts by over ninety war widows and their family members, this beautiful and moving piece of art tells many individual stories of love, loss, and [...]
This exercise is part of the War Widows’ Quilt, celebrating the lives and stories of war widow in word and stitch. Is there a poem or song that helps tell a bit of your story? Perhaps you have written a poem yourself? We are gathering songs and poems to put in breast pockets as part [...]
This exercise is part of the War Widows’ Quilt, which celebrate the lives and stories of war widows in word and stitch. The idea is to commemorate you. Your poems and pockets will join those of many other war widows from across the country, creating a stitched memorial made by many hands. If you are a [...]
War Widows’ Stories, in partnership with the War Widows’ Association of Great Britain and arthur+martha, warmly invite you to our third final arts and poetry workshop in which you will be able to contribute to the War Widows’ Quilt, which celebrates the lives and stories of war widows in verse and stitch. War widows are [...]
This exercise is part of the War Widows’ Quilt, which celebrate the lives and stories of war widows in word and stitch. The idea is to commemorate you. Your names will join those of many other war widows from across the country, creating a stitched memorial made by many hands. If you are a war [...]
On 9 November 2018, the Queen’s House in Greenwich is hosting a remembrance reception to mark major new collaborations for the War Widows’ Stories project, a venture run in partnership between Dr Nadine Muller (Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University) and the War Widows’ Association of Great Britain. [...]
On 2 November 2018, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester is hosting an event that raises awareness of the history of war widowhood in the UK. Organised by Dr Nadine Muller, Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Cultural History (Liverpool John Moores University) as part of the War Widows’ Stories project, the event [...]
On 2 October 2018, we made our way to the Union Jack Club in London to introduce our fabulous new collaborators arthur+martha to the regional organisers and trustees of the War Widows’ Association (WWA). Thanks to our recent funding successes with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Arts Council England, we have been able to partner [...]
We are honoured and excited to announced that Professor Angela Smith (Sunderland University) will be joining us as a discussant at our next in-conversation event, which takes place on 20 July at The Highlanders' Museum - Fort George! Angela Smith is Professor of Language & Culture and an expert on First World War widows in [...]
It's only a week until the first of our new in-conversation events takes place in the beautiful surroundings of Cardiff Castle and amidst the fascinating collections of the Firing Line Museum of the Welsh Soldier. The events are intended to raise awareness of the lives of war's forgotten women past and present. For war [...]
